Dish Sat Dashes Back To Earth
If you’re a subscriber to the Dish Network on you were chomping at the bit to get those HD Channels, you’ll have to wait a little longer.
Dish Network planned on using a new satellite to provide it’s customers with new HD Channels. Shortly after launch on Friday the AMC-14 satellite fell back to Earth.
The new Ku-band satellite is owned by SES Americom and was under contract by EchoStar the provider of Dish Network services. The Launch went as planned from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on top of a Proton rocket. According to statements from International Launch Services the vendor of the project, the payload failed to reach it’s planned orbit.
The new satellite was to add more than 70 channels to compete with DirectTV. Some of these channels would have been locally based for a specific geographic market. Industry analysts are now seriously looking into the future of the satellite television market place. This is a huge set back for Dish Network.
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